Same topic Authors
Quote of the day

People talk about the 1960s in a nostalgic way, but to me it was terrifying. People were getting assassinated. There was Vietnam. There were race riots. It felt like everything was going to get blown up sky-high. It didn’t feel like flower power. It felt like Armageddon.

Popular Topics
Happy, Poor, Creative, Smile, Things In Life, Inspired, Dance, Fitness, Humbly, Justice, Value Of Life, Angry, Beach, Dress, World, Air, Feelings, Journey, Night, Integrity, Comfortable, Impossible, Hope, Thank You, Live, Art, Technical, Food, Leadership, Humble, Home, Kindness, Gold, Job, Story, Excellent, Wonder, Movie Love, Girl, Fly, Book, Glory, Quiet, Intelligent, Beauty, Snows, Inspiration, Peace Love, Private Life, New York
Nadia Boulanger

The great conductor is always a despot by temperament and intractable in his ways. . . . The artist is obliged to keep his laughter and tears to himself. If they want to emerge, in spite of himself, then he must hide them or unleash them in someone else.

Artist, Laughter, Music, Tears, Temperament, Ways
Same Author Quotes

I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part.

Music, Jobs, Sex, Astonishment, Part, Job

To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.

Break, Breaking Rules, Create, Creativity, Learn, Music

Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for: it has broadened the limits of our sorrowful life, it has lit up the sweetness of our hours of happiness by effacing the pettinesses that diminish us, bringing us back pure and new to what was, what will be, what music has created for us.

Done, Hours, Limits, Lit, Music, Takes

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Choice, Everything, Inspirational, Love, Work

It is so much easier to rest contented with what we have already acquired than to change ever so slightly those routine but profound habits of thought and feeling which govern our life, and by which we live so blissfully. This mental inertia is, perhaps, our greatest enemy. Insidiously it leads us to assume that we can renew our lives without renewing our habits.

Easier, Enemy, Feeling, Feelings, Profound, Slightly
Similar Quotes